Latest on Jeff Hardy’s WWE status

While no one in the company has alerted anyone internally about this, the belief in WWE is that Jeff Hardy’s departure is imminent as his contract with the company is up at the end of the month and is not booked on any house show events at the end of the month reports The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Those close to Hardy believe he will end up working the SummerSlam PPV on August 23 as his final show with the company even though his contract would expire a few weeks earlier. While no one in WWE is outright happy that Hardy is leaving at a time when things on Smackdown are lacking on the babyface side, he is getting praise for willingly putting CM Punk over at house show events every night and working hard and putting forth quality main events on his way out.